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Boston Municipal Court Judge Peter Donovan has been acquitted of drunken driving charges more than three years after his arrest following a crash in Framingham. District Court Judge John Schubert returned the verdict in Framingham District Court only seconds after ...

Former U.S. Attorney Wayne A. Budd has been named a senior vice president of NYNEX. Budd, who served as Massachusetts’ chief federal prosecutor between 1989 and 1992, will oversee public policy, government affairs and regulatory matters in the New England ...

Two women employed by Hampden Superior Court were discriminated against when they were passed over in favor of men for permanent positions, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has ruled. The commission ordered that the women, Cheryl A. Cossaboom and Theresa ...

The lawyer of a former maintenance worker convicted of killing his boss at a state institution said he will probably challenge a judge’s refusal of a retrial. Kenneth Phoenix, 38, was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to life in prison ...

Brushing aside a request by the press, a judge said he will keep reporters, for now, from hearing details of a confession in the torture slaying of a mildly retarded Greenfield man. Judge William H. Welch said that such details, ...

The Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution is considering whether the Massachusetts confidentiality statute, G.L.c. 233, § 23C, should be amended and whether there are other issues relating to confidentiality that need to be addressed. The committee is seeking comments on ...

A portrait of the late Chief U.S. District Court Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. will be presented to the court during an April 2 ceremony. “The portrait ceremony will be unique, as the portrait artist is Senior U.S. District Court ...

A native of Uganda, who spent 38 nights in jail after he was wrongly accused of raping a child, has been awarded nearly $2 million in his suit against two Woburn police officers. Woburn Police Detectives Elizabeth Higgins and Michael ...

Domestic violence counselors say the appeal of a ruling on confidentiality in a Massachusetts case will be watched around the country, because the issue has not been addressed in any other court. The question is whether a battered women’s center ...